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| 1. |  | Title: Economics and the historian Author: Rawski, Thomas G 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: These essays provide a thorough introduction to economics for historians. The authors, all eminent scholars, show how to use economic thinking, economic models, and economic methods to enrich historical research. They examine such vital issues as long-term trends, institutions, labor - including an . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Liberalization in the process of economic development  Author: Krause, Lawrence B Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Economic growth in all developing countries is guided, and often accelerated, by generally intrusive policies implemented by governments intent on playing an active role in furthering development. As economies have grown and become more complex, however, even small market distortions are magnified, . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Durable inequality Author: Tilly, Charles Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Sociology | History | Politics | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Charles Tilly, in this eloquent manifesto, presents a powerful new approach to the study of persistent social inequality. How, he asks, do long-lasting, systematic inequalities in life chances arise, and how do they come to distinguish members of different socially defined categories of persons? Exp . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Shoshaman: a tale of corporate Japan Author: Arai, Shinya Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Economics and Business | Japan | Literature in Translation | Fiction Publisher's Description: Acknowledging no god but the corporate good, the shoshamen - high-powered professionals within Japan's integrated trading companies - serve as the unrelenting cogs of an economic machine. Or do they? Shoshaman takes us inside the world of Japan Inc. to explore the daily lives of the people who inhab . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: American domestic priorities: an economic appraisal Author: Quigley, John M Published: University of California Press, 1985 Subjects: Economics and Business Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Regionalism and change in the economy of independent Delos, 314-167 B.C Author: Reger, Gary Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Classics | History | Archaeology | Economics and Business | Ancient History Publisher's Description: Gary Reger's highly original book applies modern statistical analysis to the detailed inscriptions at the Temple of Apollo on Delos. These inscriptions, discovered during excavations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, provide a wealth of information about the business and economic . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Japan's new middle class; the salary man and his family in a Tokyo suburb, Author: Vogel, Ezra F Published: University of California Press, 1971 Subjects: Asian Studies | Sociology | Economics and Business Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: The new public management: improving research and policy dialogue Author: Barzelay, Michael Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Politics | Public Policy | Economics and Business | Social Science | Sociology Publisher's Description: How policymakers should guide, manage, and oversee public bureaucracies is a question that lies at the heart of contemporary debates about government and public administration. In their search for better systems of public management, reformers have looked in particular at the United Kingdom, Austral . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: The political logic of economic reform in China Author: Shirk, Susan L Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics | Economics and Business | China Publisher's Description: In the past decade, China was able to carry out economic reform without political reform, while the Soviet Union attempted the opposite strategy. How did China succeed at economic market reform without changing communist rule? Susan Shirk shows that Chinese communist political institutions are more . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Reconcilable differences?: congress, the budget process, and the deficit Author: Gilmour, John B Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Politics | Economics and Business | Public Policy Publisher's Description: Gilmour traces the development of the congressional budget process from its origin through the emergence of reconcilliation and Gramm-Rudman-Hollings. He shows how changes in process have brought about far-reaching shifts in congressional power, and explains why they have failed to control the explo . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Japan's administrative elite Author: Koh, Byung Chol Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Asian Studies | Japan | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: A major player in Japanese society is its government bureaucracy. Neither Japan's phenomenal track record in the world marketplace nor its remarkable success in managing its domestic affairs can be understood without insight into how its government bureaucracy works - how its elite administrators ar . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: The corporate practice of medicine: competition and innovation in health care Author: Robinson, James C 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Politics | Public Policy | Medicine | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: One of the country's leading health economists presents a provocative analysis of the transformation of American medicine from a system of professional dominance to an industry under corporate control. James Robinson examines the economic and political forces that have eroded the traditional medical . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Alliance capitalism: the social organization of Japanese business Author: Gerlach, Michael L Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Economics and Business | Sociology | Japan Publisher's Description: Business practices in Japan inspire fierce and even acrimonious debate, especially when they are compared to American practices. This book attempts to explain the remarkable economic success of Japan in the postwar period - a success it is crucial for us to understand in a time marked by controversi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Nested games: rational choice in comparative politics Author: Tsebelis, George Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics | Economics and Business | Political Theory Publisher's Description: Clearly written and easily understood by the nonspecialist, Nested Games provides a systematic, empirically accurate, and theoretically coherent account of apparently irrational political actions. Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Political economy and the rise of capitalism: a reinterpretation Author: McNally, David Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Politics | Political Theory | Economics and Business | History Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Modern Japanese organization and decision-making Author: Vogel, Ezra F Published: University of California Press, 1985 Subjects: Asian Studies | Sociology | Economics and Business Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Fountain of fortune: money and monetary policy in China, 1000-1700 Author: Von Glahn, Richard Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | China | Asian History | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: In this study, the first of its kind in the English language, Richard von Glahn offers a definitive analysis of the economic, political, and social history of money and monetary policy during the Song, Yuan, Ming, and early Qing dynasties. Von Glahn presents a revisionist interpretation of previousl . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: When knowledge is power: three models of change in international organizations Author: Haas, Ernst B Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics | Political Theory | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Do governments seeking to collaborate in such international organizations as the United Nations and the World Bank ever learn to improve the performance of those organizations? Can international organizations be improved by a deliberate institutional design that reflects lessons learned in peacekeep . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Managing the medical arms race: public policy and medical device innovation Author: Foote, Susan Bartlett Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | Medicine | Public Policy | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: The allure of medical innovation is powerful - it holds out the promise of perfect health, the end of pain, the deferral of death. Our insatiable appetite for costly new technologies, fed by a profusion of innovations and the profits they generate, has led to what has been dubbed the medical arms ra . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: China's new business elite: the political consequences of economic reform Author: Pearson, Margaret M 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Politics | Economics and Business | China Publisher's Description: The transition from a planned to a market economy that began in China in the late 1970s unleashed an extraordinary series of changes, including increases in private enterprise, foreign investment, the standard of living, and corruption. Another result of economic reform has been the creation of a ne . . . [more] Similar Items |